What does it mean to you?
Joy?
Or killing?
It's joy for me: tumbling clowns with pompom buttons; a pompom bounding along on top of a child's hat...
...mathematical dahlias (someone's pride and joy)...
...carnival!
But some of us hear killing.
Pompom (or pom-pom): a cannon, especially an anti-aircraft cannon.
Well, I've made my choice.
What's yours?
Word To Use Today: pompom. The cannon word is an imitation of its noise. The fluffy-ball word comes from the Old French pompe, a knot of ribbons.
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